Ah, impending summer on the Gold Coast! It's that time of year when you can just start to sense those warm beach days and it's absolutely my favourite time of year here. Which means... it's time to head off to other events again. Fortunately it's all domestic this time as I head south to Sydney and Melbourne and maintaining my "no fly unless I absolutely have to" stance, it's long, open road drives, copious podcasts and lots of thinking time. On the infosec side of things, there's a a bunch of...

It's my first conference back in Australia since probably about May and I'm experiencing a rare luxury - not flying! I'm sticking to driving some big distances just to get a break from the tyranny that is check-in, security and airport lounges. Seriously, it was beginning to do my head in so now it's cruise control and podcasts for me in the foreseeable future. This week's travel has brought me to Sydney where the new iPhone got a good workout: > Night Mode on the iPhone 11 Pro is rather amazi...

Australia! Geez it's nice to sit amongst the gum trees and listen to the birds, even if it's right in the middle of some fairly miserable weather. I'll continue to be here for the foreseeable future too, at least in one state or another. But being back here hasn't stopped me talking about European laws being handled by a local American website nor commentating on the (now well and truly over) debate about the usefulness of visual identity indicators in browsers. But hey, at least the discussion...

Well, this will be the last weekly update done overseas for some time as I count down the return to beaches, sunshine and fantastic coffee (yes, I'm confident saying that even whilst in Italy!) It's been a non-stop trip with an attempt of a bit of downtime at the end of it, albeit with limited success. Regardless, this week I'm covering off the last few days travels, reflecting on 10 years of blogging and looking at a really cool use of HIBP related to net neutrality comments lodged at the FCC....

It's been a bit of intense country-hopping since the last update so this one is a consolidated "this week in tweets" version. I actually found it kind of interesting going back through the noteworthy incidents of the week in lieu of having original content of my own, see what you think. Given the coming schedule (and a deep, deep desire for a few days of downtime), the next one might be more of the same so I hope it resonates! [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcas...

Hungary! And that's about as much intro as I'm going to do on that because this is going out super later and I'm writing this at the end of a very long day. Only other thing I'll mention is the audio - the Instamic failed to record again so it's now going firmly into the e-waste bin. Anyway, on a more positive note, enjoy the beautiful sights of the Hungarian parliament before you jump into this week's update: > Budapest! ?? pic.twitter.com/RBgc2ssfiR [https://t.co/RBgc2ssfiR] — Troy Hunt (@t...

Allow me to be controversial for a moment: arbitrary password restrictions on banks such as short max lengths and disallowed characters don't matter. Also, allow me to argue with myself for a moment: banks shouldn't have these restrictions in place anyway. I want to put forward cases for both arguments here because seeing both sides is important. I want to help shed some light on why this practice happens and argue pragmatically both for and against. But firstly, let's just establish what's hap...

Turns out it's actually a sunny day in Oslo today, although it's the last one I'll see here for quite some time before heading off to Denmark then other European things for the remainder of this trip. I'm talking a little about those events (all listed on my events page [https://www.troyhunt.com/2019events/]), this week's changes to EV, more data breaches and a somewhat semantic argument about the definition of "theft". [https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast/id117...

From the emerging spring to the impending autumn, I'm back in Oslo at the beginning of another series of European events that'll take me across Norway, Denmark, Hungary and Switzerland. This week's update comes from under the glow of a warm outdoor heater at ridiculous o'clock as my sleep cycle keeps me making early starts. But it's all transient and by this time next month I'll be back to a very warm, very familiar Aussie landscape. For now, here's what's new on my side: [https://itunes.apple....

How's that for a setting in this week's video? ? First day of spring here which aligned with a father's day on the water: > May all your father’s days be full of fun and laughter ? pic.twitter.com/pN1dQ38cDr [https://t.co/pN1dQ38cDr] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 1, 2019 [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1168093858002944001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Back on business as usual, there's the SIM hijacking issue with Jack Dorsey's Twitter account, more data breaches and joyously, the HIBP API be...